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Find out more about how we test. The best compact camera you can buy right now is the Sony RX100 VII. While it may be a few years old, it still delivers an excellent package all around.

I’d love to see an eighth iteration of the Sony RX100 series. The RX100 VII is five years old now, and Sony has done a lot since then, so a new model could be a seriously powerful pocket camera.

It got me thinking about my own point-and-shoot that I bought back in 2012, the Sony Cyber-shot RX100. It’s a camera from a similar moment in time to those Nikon and Canon models, when leading ...